, 1887-11-12
S?RANGLED.
A Death Blow to Anarchy in
America.
Four Men Fearlessly Meet
Their Fate in Chicago
Incidents Which Marked the
Closing Tragic Scene.
Thousands of Orderly Specta-
tors Near the Jail.
No Public Disturbances Stain
the Days Record.
The Last Night in the Jail.

Cook COUNTY JAIL, CHICAGO, Nov.
ll.-During the long hours of the night
the only newspaper men who were adj
mitted to the inner precincts of the Jail
were the representatives of the Associated
Press. They had quarters in what is
known as the lawyers cage and were
within ten feet of the anarchists. At a
O'Clock one of them made a tour of the
lower corridor, where Spies, Parsons,
Fischer and Engel were confined. In each
cell were two stalwart guards, who stood
watch over the anarchists. The former
chatted in low tones and whispered Jokes
among themselves to while away the time.
But the talk and whispered jokes were
lost on the prisoners. Each one was in
the heaviest of slumbers. Spies lay on
one side, his head on his arm, and he
slept as peacefully as a babe. At inter,
walls the silence was broken by the stealthy
walk of the armed guard, who made the
rounds of the lower corridor TO see that
all was well. The only other disturbing
element was the mewing of the Jail cat,
who kept up the noise so persistently that
at last the deputy bore down on, captured
and removed her to the basement, where
her cries could not be heard.
Sonnet me after midnight Parsons COM
planned that the hum of conversation in
the %iailor's office annoyed him and pre-
vented him from sleeping. The wooden
door which hangs on the office side of the
heavy bars of the inner door was closed,
and the Texas anarchist dropped into an
uneasy slumber. In the office a busy
crowd of reporters stood writing at the
high desks, or lounged about talking with
the deputies. Occasionally heavy step
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the strong door was opened. revealing a
candidate to admission to all the horrors
provided for the possessors of passes.
From within the lawyers cage came the
sharp metallic click of the Associated
Press telegraph Instruments. dispatching
the gathering incidents of the night.
Along the otherwise silent corridors
sounded the slow, regular tramp of the
deputies composing the death watch, to
and fro. ceaselessly, in front of the cell
doors in which were the four forfeited
lives.
About | O'Clock, while there was com
p~arative silence, the occupants of the
sheriff Office were startled by a crash and
bang from the northern corridor. It was
nothing only the sheriff and a few other
officials experimenting with the scaffold
and testing it and the ropes. A few min
utes after 2 o'clock Spies stood at the
door of his cell smoking and talking
through the bars with his guard. Be
tween 3 and 4 o'clock the rumble of
wheels penetrated the thick walls and a
wagon drove up and unloaded four cof.
fins.
AT $3.50 all were asleep, Fielden and
Schwab in their cells In the second tier,
having retired before midnight. In the
first flush of relief, to them imprisou-
ment for life was a very small matter, and
they could sleep in safety. Not many
minutes from & o'clock came the daylight,
cold aud pitiless as the law about to be
avenged, and a hustle different from that
of the night invaded the seclusion Of the
prison.
The day of the hanging had arrived.